Pipe



Feb. 5, 1935. G.L. FALLDINE PIPE Filed Dec 28, 1933 Invenior ye L. 2511479106 Patented F eb. 5, 1935 UNITED STTES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

This invention relates to improvements in pipes, the general object of the invention being to so form the stem of the pipe that moisture, particles of tobacco or the like cannot reach the mouth of the smoker, with means for draining moisture that might collect in the stem into a chamber adjacent the bowl of the pipe where the moisture will be evaporated from the heat of the burning tobacco in the bowl.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawing wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which:

Figure l is a side view of the improved pipe.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view thereof.

In this drawing, the bowl of the pipe is shown at 1 and its stem at 2, while the mouth piece and its stem is shown at 3. The mouth piece stem is formed with a substantially inverted U-shaped intermediate portion 4 which extends upwardly, as shown. The stem 2 of the bowl is formed with a chamber 5 which preferably tapers inwardly from the outer end of the stem and has its inner end connected to the bottom of the bowl by a small passage 6. The outer end of the stem 3 is reduced and fitted in the outer part of the passage 5 and these parts can be held together by friction or by screw threads or in any other suitable manner. As shown in Figure 2, the outer end of the stem 3 terminates an appreciable distance from the front end of the chamber 5 so that the major portion of the chamber is open and forms a collecting chamber for moisture, nicotine and the like. The stem 3 has a large bore 6 extending from a. point substantially at the central part of the bight of the U-part 4 through the reduced end and the bore 7 of the rest of the stem is of small size, as shown in Figure 2, and the junction of these two bores forms a shoulder 8, as shown in Figure 2. The outer end of the small part of the stem 3 is formed with a sloping part 9 which extends from the lower wall of the bore 6 downwardly so as to permit any moisture to readily pass from the bore 6 into the chamber 5.

Thus it will be seen that it is impossible for moisture, such as saliva or nicotine to pass through the bore 6 and enter the bore 7 and thus reach the mouth of the user and by making the bore 6 larger than the bore '7, there is no danger of the suction created by the user drawing on the stem from sucking any moisture or foreign matter from the chamber 5 and bore 6 into the bore 7. Any moisture collecting on the walls of the bore 6 will run down the walls into the chamber 5 and pass down the sloping part 9 into the chamber 5 and thus this moisture will not be drawn back into the stem 3. As the chamber 5 is located close to the bowl 1, the heat of the burning tobacco in the bowl will evaporate the moisture in the chamber 5.

This pipe will provide a dry smoke to the user and no moisture or foreign matter can enter the mouth of the user. If any foreign matter should happen toenter the stem part, it can be readily blown back into the chamber 5 by the user blowing into the mouth piece and by removing the stem 3 from the stem 2 and blowing through the mouth piece end of the stem 3, foreign matter can be readily removed from said stem 3 and the chamber 5 can be readily cleaned.

This pipe will draw better than ordinary pipes on account of the large capacityof the bore 6 and the chamber 5 and as the chamber 5 prevents any moisture from entering the bowl, the tobacco will burn better as the moisture will not affect the tobacco in the bottom of the bowl.

The large bore 6 and the height of the U-shaped part will vary in accordance with the types of bowls uponwhich the invention is used.

t is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of the invention will be readily apparent.

It is to be understood that changes may be made in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claim.

What is claimed is:-

A mouth piece for a pipe having an upstanding substantially inverted U-shaped portion intermediate its ends, said mouth piece having a bore passing therethrough, that portion of the bore from the pipe receiving end of the mouth piece to the bight part of the U-shaped portion being of larger diameter than that portion extending from the bight part to the mouth end of the stem, the junction of the large part of the bore with the small part thereof forming a shoulder in the bight part of the U-shaped portion.

GEORGE L. FALLDINE. 

